Why is Total Recall being remade?

One simple reason: 4 boobs.

That's right. You heard me.

The hooker on Mars is going to have 4 boobs this time.

It really depends on the direction they go with it. This could be a Total Win or it could= TOTAL FAIL! I am kind of curious to see what happens honestly. If they try to make some LAME sequel or prequel garbage that will probably be a bad idea. If they decide to make a totally new story, different characters but a similar concept that might be cool!

It is never cool to try to duplicate a classic or well known movie. BUT it can be cool to add to a story, update it or make a new cast of characters entirely. Personally, I think with the right script and actors a new Total Recall might turn out better than expected! When you measure it to today's standards it doesn't have the acting, the special effects or cool technology we have today. The original still holds its own in the movie world. It has a great plot and it will always be a great film. I am not for an actual remake of the original but a NEW Total Recall might be cool if it is done right! I have an open mind about it.

Other than the reality that America's in The Great Remake Era, it's an opportunity to make money, as well as a movie that hasn't (notably) been remade yet.

Moreover, many movie makers approach the remake concept from the view of "what would this movie be like if it was made to suit today's standards". -- For example: "You Got mail" (1998) is a remake of "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940)...the difference is, in the original, the two parties communicated via snail mail (1st class mail), and in the updated remade version they used e-mail to communicate; thus, the etiquette for internet life vs. Snail mail life, made for a much different setting within the story.

So basically, when a movie is remade, it's not necessarily to improved upon the story, as so much as it is to modernize it.

you're calling human beings undesirable actors and praising an Arnold Schwarzenegger action picture? finished bear in mind sucks. that's a valuable destroy and a desirable swap-your-innovations-off action picture, yet no longer something extra. stop attempting to make out like that's the hot Citizen Kane or something. that's an exceptionally kitschy, style of lame B action picture that frankly could be accomplished a provider by skill of recent specific outcomes (that is not elementary to experience undesirable for somebody suffocating whilst they're so needless to say a puppet). in the event that they have been remaking a solid Arnold action picture, like the two of the 1st 2 Terminators, i could be perfect there with you, yet finished bear in mind is an absolute shaggy dog tale.

Well, to be honest, I thought the original needed a better actor to play the lead for the paranoia type of movie it was. Arnold's presence kinda' made the original too comic booky.

This new one should be darker.

I think "Dark City" was one of the best movies ever. And The 13th Floor.

Did you just realize that they're remaking a lot of classics? Film makers aren't running out of ideas, thousands of independent scripts go in the trash every month. They just want a safe return on their investment, and stupid people won't watch old movies.

It will suck of course. It's not going to get any better than "see you at da pahty richter!", or " you got what you want cohagen, now give das peepul air!", or "when you hear da crunch your der!". And their never going to top "konsiderdisadivorce!" it's this dang 3d they got now, why not repack every sic fi, cgi, FBI, poop in your eye movie to rape the desperate techno slaves best buy has turned the world into. The end. P.s. They remade conan too, can't they just leave ahnold alone.

In minor defense of the proposed remake, the plot is supposedly wildly different--no Mars, for example. So perhaps it can succeed in its own right, apart from the original.

all I can say is that I don't like that

I also don't like that they remade in 2011

Straw Dogs - which flopped miserably

The Mechanic - bad, and I didn't even like the original one, but it at least had Charles Bronson in it

Red Sonja

Conan the Barbarian

because hollywood has no writers, and they are remaking eveyr single film they can till they HAVE topay new writers, who they think are demanding too much money

, they, the peopel who are making the moviews,are lazy, greedy and have no talent to do what they are paid to do, the real writers, do, and want to be recognised for it

so hollywood thinks' its fine, if they can do it, so can we'

but,m they cant, so they remake already brilliantly written movies